Daily Archives: 2008.03.06

Holly Jolly in March

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Holly Jolly
“Holly Jolly” #DBR3101 copyright 2006
Fat Quarter Tree Skirt and Table Topper ~ Rosina Smith

Here is a picture of my Mother’s birthday present . . . as usual taking a couple of years and several months in the process. I wish I had a picture of my face when I was about to cut the centre slit. After all the hours of cutting and piece and quilting, you want me do do WHAT??? The proposed tree skirt came very close to becoming a table topper. I appreciate the care Rosina took in writing out the instructions. This is my first major pieced work (as opposed to the appliqué I usually do) I had no difficulty working step by step to completion.

Thank Rosina, for an enjoyable project!

One by One. . .

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. . . the Penguins stole my sanity . . . but happily I have a lovely Linux box of the Ubuntu flavour. Last summer Steve reached the, “I’ve had it with W$XP”. He purchased a heavy-duty and now hard-working Mac. This left me with no CS2 software for my W2K machine. I suppose I could have dug up some replacement software, but being faced with no further support for my T&T W2K, having buckets of old PC cards and drives (and feeling that the newer versions of W$ were evil,) — I decided to make the jump to Linux with Ubuntu.

Gulp, leaving my geekly safety net behind at a major Mac/Linux divide . . .mind numbingly terrifying! So I stripped down my box, eliminated excess W$ software, rounded up spare drives and practised the mantra, “Google is my friend, Google is my friend!” The Ubuntu community support has been phenomenal; these hard working volunteers deserve kudos. Without them my baby steps into Linux might have been a short one or at least very painful.

Now all I need is a Linux Penguin key to replace the Windows key on my teeny keyboard :)
So if you have been wondering what happened to me I’ve been playing with my ‘puters innards, letting dogs out, letting dogs in . . . and stitching, of course, it takes a lot to keep me from stitching!